KGB
Some of the key events about KGB
- 1937Conducted mass executions and deportations during the Great Purge
- 1940Orchestrated the Katyn massacre of Polish officers and intelligentsia
- 1953Fabricated the "Doctors' Plot" to purge Jewish doctors
- 1954Established a foreign intelligence division to gather information abroad
- 1956Violently suppressed the Hungarian Revolution
- 1957Created a special department to combat economic crimes and corruption
- 1962Arrested and executed Soviet spy Oleg Penkovsky
- 1967Formed an elite counter-terrorism unit called "Alpha Group"
- 1968Led the invasion of Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring
- 1971Established a computer center to modernize intelligence gathering and analysis
- 1973Implemented advanced surveillance technologies to enhance operational capabilities
- 1979Assassinated the Afghan president, leading to Soviet invasion
- 1982Developed a specialized division for combating organized crime
- 1983Shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, killing all 269 people on board
- 1985Expanded international cooperation efforts with foreign intelligence agencies
- 1985Kidnapped and tortured American journalist Nicholas Daniloff
- 1988Played a role in negotiating the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan
- 1989Assisted in the peaceful resolution of conflicts during the fall of the Berlin Wall
- 1989Violently suppressed pro-independence protests in Tbilisi, Georgia
- 1991Helped maintain stability during the dissolution of the Soviet Union
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